Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been playing around a lot recently with using pseudo-randomized note and timbre sequences in ambient music … without buying special software. Let’s play with that some, because it makes for some interesting sonic textures. My two latest releases on Bandcamp have both featured randomized sequences (that was shameless promotion, meant to entice you to go check out the new songs. My Bandcamp link is below).
TIMELINE:
00:00 Begin transmission
00:00 Opening Jam
08:30 Welcome and preamble and minor audio adjustments
09:40 MIDI interface issues so we’re “in the box”
11:24 What’s in The Jam?
21:00 Some more chatter about the MIDI interface and other stuff
23:55 The random note and patch generation background
25:35 Ways to accomplish results similar to using Harmony Bloom
35:33 There’s been drama and I don’t do drama well
36:00 Why not a modular/VCV approach — too many tools
41:30 Building a random track and synth
43:00 An aside — cleaning electronics
49:50 Random timbre patch in Vital
58:30 Kurt looking at Solar 42. It makes me drool.
1:00:00 Eric wants granular. Discussion continues in chat while I’m playing with effects.
1:07:15 Stacking VSTs in synth rack to be controlled by random sequence.
1:09:20 Layering random pluck with pad sounds interesting, and prepping for rack for receiving note triggers
1:13:30 Building the trigger track.
1:21:00 That’s randomoscity in a nutshell!
1:22:20 Discussion of the Ableton Random MIDI effect, and other options for algorythmic note data generation
1:28:25 Considering options for building entirely within the “synth”, and the utility of the PiKorgs.
1:32:00 Listen to @dani_raudvik on YouTube, and latest album on BandCamp: https://raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/mdcx
1:34:35 Winding down, links in chat, etc., good night all and thanks!
1:38:25 The Closing Jam
1:44:22 End transmission
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